afghanistan

FIRST, "PRES. BARACK OBAMA" MUST END THE ARE IN IRAQ;START PULLING OUT ALL OUR TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN;THUS IMPACTING OUR GIANT DEBT AND IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY. WE MUSS HELP AND LOOK TO THIS COUNTRY FIRST!!! WE ARE BROKE, AND WE NEED TO HELP OUR CITIZENS FIRST W/FORECLOSURES;HEALTH CARE;EDUCATION;RETURNING JOBS TO THE U.S. THEN WE CAN WITH GREAT IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT, START WHAT EUROPE HAS BEEN DOING FOR YEAR...PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT. WE DO NOT NEED THE "HOSTAGE OIL!" WE NEED VISION AND SCOPE!

Out of Iraq and Afghanistan and begin to talk to our enemies, to all of them, including Cuba, Hamas, Al Kaida and remember what Rabin said: You make peace with your enemies, not with your friends. Stop the senseless war on drugs and spend instead more money to future technologies that save our environment and lessens the dependens from oil. Revive the American Dream, inspire people, give them hope, be a role model in the world instead of following egoistic, short term goals.

Form boards with singular priorites: board #1 -to form and exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan executable by December 2009. Board #2 -to study the top 10 universal healthcare systems in the world and build a model by the year 2010. Board #3-to schedule infrastructure work and implement plans by December 2009. Board#4-to design wind, wave and solar powered energy sources to begin implementation by December 2009. Board #5- to address secondary education cost reforms to be implemented by 2010.

The United States made great strides to oust the Taliban and Al Qaeda and stand up the Afghan government after the invasion in October 2001, but the situation has deteriorated since 2005. The Taliban and Al Qaeda have regrouped and support the Afghan insurgency while strengthening their own capabilities. The Bush administration has portrayed Iraq as the central front of the central front of the "global war on terror," Afghanistan and the borderlands of Pakistan remain the central battlefield.